Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er you were using your own contacts |
| 2 | ‘ He said you were bringing her some thirst quenchers , and he asked me to run down and collect them . |
| 3 | The school secretary was looking for other jobs to supplement her pay packet , there was n't enough money in the budget to pay for the books to teach the new curriculum , tests for seven-year-olds were bringing their own problems . |
| 4 | During the eighteenth century this duty devolved on their deputies , the Sixty Clerks , and by around 1800 suitors were employing their own solicitors . |
| 5 | Germany is set to introduce legislation to allow it to incinerate domestic and industrial waste as complaints grow among its EC partners that German waste exports were stifling their own recycling capacity . |
| 6 | Er the , the only good thing to come out of these proposals is that erm that he supports the erm the appearance of the public enquiry and the sale of erm that , that erm he suggests for example that we should try the airports policy consortium , well we dealt that five years ago when we realised that Surrey and it 's surrounding areas were getting their own pressure group organised to make sure that Stansted got all of the flack got all the , got all the few other things as well . |
| 7 | He always stayed calm , but he had a knack of turning things around so that you thought you were getting your own way when in fact you 'd just agreed with him . |
| 8 | He and Jordan were conducting their own ritual away from the group . |
| 9 | I mean how do you protect Eurofighter two thousand in the absence of the medium range surface to air missile on the , I think you you told us about er the aircraft themselves as it were providing their own protection but what else ? |
| 10 | Following well-rehearsed dismounting drills , the riflemen poured out of the Warriors and in next to no time were providing their own fire support as the Warriors reversed away at high speed to give covering fire from positions where they would be less vulnerable to short-range anti-tank weapons . |
| 11 | This break with post-war social assumptions proved relatively easy to initiate : by the end of 1984 , 800,000 council tenants were buying their own homes . |
| 12 | A platoon from B Company were having their own shooting competition with the Canadians and Germans . |
| 13 | By 1914 , there were over 400 Board of Trade exchanges in the United Kingdom dealing with juveniles ; in 44 districts the Board had also authorized JACs , and in 58 districts the LEAs were running their own schemes . |
| 14 | ‘ Would it not be better if you were asking us such questions with a beer in front of yourself and the taste of it warming your throat ? |
| 15 | ‘ You look as if you were attending your own funeral ’ , the King chaffed him . |
| 16 | you are , eh the basically eh if you were doing your own thing and making decent money |
| 17 | ‘ The tackle from behind has been stopped here for a long time , but they were doing it all night and getting away with it . |
| 18 | In industries like British Leyland , workers were disavowing their own shop stewards ; the star of such local firebrands as ‘ Red Robbo ’ and Alan ‘ The Mole ’ Thornett seemed to have set . |
| 19 | It was as if she were giving me some hyacinth bulbs and saying December was a bit late to plant them . |
| 20 | Since they had all been longer than I in Kampala , they were taking what all expatriates ( including all American Embassy staff ) take : chloroquine plus proguanil hydrochloride ( Paludrine , a British ICI-manufactured drug not yet approved by the American Food and Drug Administration ) . |
| 21 | No , not really , not if we were creating our own heat and light from natural renewable sources . |
| 22 | All over the world , as I had observed on my travels for Panorama and TRI , countries which had long been administered by others were hoisting their own colours ; everywhere the idea of new-born nationhood was in the air . |
| 23 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 24 | They may have been corrupted by the atrocities committed against their people but , by stooping to the same level of conduct , they were corrupting their own cause . |
| 25 | Meanwhile the German fighter pilots were making their own claims ; Lt.Willi Kothmann of I/JG 27 claimed one Hurricane at 1700 ( probably Ayre ) , the only claim to be made by pilots of this unit over Malta during 1941. 7/JG 26 then arrived and Fw . |
| 26 | One day , she came out to the perimeter fence ; another , she came into the kitchen when they were making me some food . |
| 27 | While his friends were earning their few pennies for a week 's work as paper-boys and butcher 's assistants , Dave was caddying for a round at Hollinwell , the championship course near his home . |
| 28 | Was what you were telling him this morning , was it ? |
| 29 | Just a few months ago , Opposition Members were telling us that trust hospitals would fail and that they should be judged by the simple test of whether they do more or less work on NHS patients . |
| 30 | Even as Lord Caithness seemed to buckle the Government were tabling their own amendments to fix the odds against B R bids a finesse , but the rebels bought it . |